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Using a Function Design Recipe to Debug

Ever notice how some of your bugs are annoyingly simple once you find them? Use this six-step checklist to skip straight through to harder problems.
Mike Burns
October 1, 2021
- Debugging
- Debugging Series 2021
The Curse of Knowledge

Ever played Charades and acted out the perfect mime to ‘James Bond’, only to be met with blank stares? That moment when you wonder “Are my friends fools!?”, that’s the curse of knowledge.
Jared Turner
September 28, 2021
How Validating Your Idea First Can Save You Money

We walk through the importance of product validation and how we’ve seen it succesfully save founders time and money in planning their first version product.
Kelly Gebo
September 21, 2021
Seeking Product Managers who love launching NEW products and NEW product teams.

thoughtbot is growing our Product Management Team. Please see our current open positions.
Emily Bahna
September 20, 2021
Hotwire: Typeahead searching

Build a search-as-you-type text box with Turbo, Stimulus, and Rails.
Sean Doyle
September 17, 2021
- Hotwire
- Rails
- Turbo
- Stimulus
Migrating thoughtbot Repositories to use Main as default branch

thoughtbot is moving all of it’s GitHub Repositories to use “main” as the default branch.
Brian Tenggren
September 16, 2021
- News
- Git
Spaces: The Final Frontier

One big giant blob of words is hard – and tedious – to read. Let’s get back to elementary school and see how we can improve this.
Matheus Richard
September 15, 2021
- Refactoring
- Code
Hotwire: Server-rendered live previews

Turbo-charge your Article drafting feedback cycle with Hotwire-powered live previews.
Sean Doyle
September 14, 2021
- Hotwire
- Rails
- Turbo
- Stimulus
Testing Your Edge Cases

A little combination math goes a long way to catching edge cases.
Joël Quenneville
September 8, 2021
- Testing
- Ruby
- Development
Solving the Prototype Puzzle

Curious what you can expect from a product prototype. Here is how we suggest getting the most out of a prototyping effort.
Kelly Gebo
August 19, 2021
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